Customize Your OS X Dock
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Since we have several Mac people floating around our community, James created a screencast to show you different ways you can customize your Dock. While those of you who are experts may feel this is “dumb”, I ask you to remember when you first started using a Mac! It’s a completely different ballgame from what Windows is, right? Those people who are new to OS X may not have a clue as to how to do things like this. Tutorials like this will really help them! Thanks to James for creating an excellent screencast!
The first suggestion James has is to create a 2D Dock, instead of the standard 3D one. In order to do this, you want to head into your terminal and type in defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES;. After you press the enter key, you’ll need to then type in killall Dock. Now the 2D Dock will appear. This is more organized (and cleaner!) for you.
Next, James shows you how to show only those Apps that are active and available at the present time. To do this, you’ll want to bring up your terminal again, and type in defaults write com.apple.dock static-only -bool TRUE. After that, type in killall Dock. Now only your current Apps will show up in your Dock.
Now you can reset your Dock in case you don’t like your changes. Simply type in rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist. Press enter, and then type killall Dock. The Dock is now reset!
The next trick James has for you is to first go to the Leopard Docks website. You can choose from different downloads and Dock collections that they have. They download quickly. Click to open it once it’s downloaded. These will also let you add Dock spacers, as well as easily change your Dock around.
Excellent work, James! Thanks for the tips!
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